{"id":23886,"date":"2019-02-07T15:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23886"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:43:19","slug":"steam-and-strawberry-fair-countywexford-july-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/steam-and-strawberry-fair-countywexford-july-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam and Strawberry Fair\u2014County,Wexford, July 2001."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>On July 7, 2001, I traveled with the late Norman McAdams to photograph an Railway Preservation Society of Ireland&nbsp;<em>Strawberry Fair<\/em>steam special led by locomotive 171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the course of the day we caught this colourful excursion at a variety of locations on the Dublin &amp; Southeastern route south of Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the afternoon, typical Irish summer weather closed in on us, with heavy skies and haze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23887\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/steam-and-strawberry-fair-countywexford-july-2001\/rpsi_171_near_killurin_7jul2001_briansolomon_538403\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?fit=1287%2C856\" data-orig-size=\"1287,856\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?fit=709%2C472\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?fit=474%2C315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?resize=474%2C315\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23887\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?w=1287 1287w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?resize=709%2C472 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?resize=1022%2C680 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I made this telephoto view of the northward trip at Killurin, County Wexford along the River Slaney. I opted to photograph the train at distance to show the full consist and the snaky track alignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in July 2001, I made this telephoto view of RPSI&#8217;s northward Strawberry Fair excursion at Killurin, County Wexford along the River Slaney. I opted to photograph the train at distance to show the full consist and the snakey track alignment. Click on Tracking the Light for more on this photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[5278,4953,4537,4122,7535,20,430],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RPSI_171_near_Killurin_7Jul2001_BrianSolomon_538403.jpg?fit=1287%2C856","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23889,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23886\/revisions\/23889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}